Mr Biscotti said: “I wouldn’t like to swap my trial with theirs. We did the best out of it. Look where they are now.

"They face a long time in prison and I wouldn’t like to be in their position.

“I am convinced we had the best strategy in the trial. The verdict on Knox and Sollecito confirms my opinion.”

The lawyer added: “Rudy has nothing to say about the verdict, he’s on his own path.

"He’s already done six years but in reality it’s eight because he served two before the trial, so that’s half his time. He doesn’t want to speak to anybody and doesn’t want anything to jeopardise the sentence.

"He wants to be forgotten. He’s paying the price for what he has done, unjustly in my opinion.”

Sollecito, 29, has himself admitted he finds it bizarre that Guede should ever be allowed day release.

He said: “It’s absurd. Guede should have been on trial with me. How can I convince him to speak when he has done all he can to hide the truth?”

Last weekend Knox insisted there was no evidence she was a killer and hoped Meredith’s family would eventually agree.

She said: “It’s one of the things I find very hard to live with.

“I understand why it’s so difficult for them to ­consider I’m innocent. That’s a really big rock to overturn.

“I just keep ­hoping that with enough information they will one day come to this conclusion.”